Black History Month February 2025: African Americans and Labor [Smithsonian]
Celebrate Black History Month with Smithsonian events, resources, exhibitions, and podcasts. The 2025 theme is "African Americans and Labor" with a focus on the various and profound ways that work of all kinds intersects with the collective experiences of Black people.
Celebrating African American Heritage with the National Park Service
America's national parks weave together a mosaic of African American history. A large patchwork of National Park Service sites were founded because of their pivotal places in history. Other sites highlight the untold stories—the no-less-important, every-day-remarkable stories of African Americans in history.
Pictured: George Washington Carver National Monument, Missouri. The young child known as the "Plant Doctor" tended his secret garden while observing the day-to-day operations of a 19th century farm. Nature and nurture ultimately influenced George on his quest for education to becoming a renowned agricultural scientist, educator, and humanitarian.
Celebrate Black History Month 2024 [National Museum of African American History & Culture]
African American artists — poets, writers, visual artists, and dancers — have historically served as change agents through their crafts.
Drawn from their ancestors' ancient rites of passage and the shared hopes of liberty, Black artists continue to fuse the rhythmic cadence of creative expressions with the pulsating beats of progress. The NMAAHC museum celebrates Black History Month 2024 by highlighting the ‘art of resistance’ and the artists who used their crafts to uplift the race, speak truth to power and inspire a nation.
Pictured: Carter G. Woodson developed the idea for Negro History Week to promote the history, culture and achievements of African Americans and other people of color worldwide.
Celebrating Black History Month 2025 with Queens Public Library
This Black History Month, join Queens Public Library in honoring the powerful legacy of Black labor and its central role in shaping American history and culture. Our 2025 theme, African Americans and Labor, highlights the profound ways that work—whether free or unfree, skilled or unskilled, vocational or voluntary—has intersected with the collective experiences of Black people.
We’re honoring the laborers, union organizers, and activists who have tirelessly fought for fair wages, safe workplaces, and racial and economic equity, paving the way for social justice and progress across industries. Browse our curated booklists, enjoy our all-ages programs, watch wonderful movies, and much more, this February and beyond!
Celebrate Black history and future through Reimagined's daily newsletter series in February entitled "28 Days of Black History". Great for students, workplaces, and passionate learners. The theme for 2025 is African Americans and Labor, focusing on the various and profound ways that work and working of all kinds – free and unfree. We’ll be highlighting incredible organizers, activists, entrepreneurs and influencers who shaped Black liberation through work.